Safety attachment for pockets



J. W. WELLS.

SAFETY ATTACHMENT FOR POGKETS.

No. 260,915. Patented July 11,1882.

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JAMES W. WELLS, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

SAFETY ATTACHMENT FOR POCKETS.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 260,915, dated July 11, 1882.

Application filed November 10, 1879.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. WELLS, a citizen of the United States, residing in Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and efiicient device for holding the sides of the opening leading into the pocket together or toward each other with sufiicient force to prevent a pencil or other article placed therein irom dropping out while the person having the same isin a stooping posture; and it consists of a spring of wire or other similar material, formed so as to adapt it to hold the pocket as and for purposes above mentioned, and provided with holding pieces to keep it in place within the pocket, as will be more clearly hereinaiter shown by reference to the drawings, in

' whichdevice before being put into the pocket.

A represents the spring portion or body of the device. It is made of spring-wire bent to the form substantially as shown in Fig. 3, and

is provided with bent portions cm and buttons 0 b b, to prevent it from going down too far into the pocket, and also to keep it in proper place therein. bent forward and having the buttons b attached at; the ends; but the parts a may be 35 bent sidewise, as shown in Fig. 2, and by bonding them more in the form of hooks, as therein shown, the buttons b may be dispensed with. The wire used may be either square, octagonal,

or round; but I prefer roundwireas being the 40 A pocket-fastener consisting of the part A, 50

adapted to fit and distend the sides of the pocket, substantially as specified, and having the bent portions a, as and for the purposes described.

JAMES WVILLIAM WELLS. Witnesses:

JAMES A. SKINNER, LAWRENCE T. J ONES.

In Fig. 1 the parts a are shown as 

